Believe it or not, I've been thinking up ways to make this process more transparent for a while.

So today especially, a day when transparency has been a buzz word, I'm ecstatic to announce we have our list of candidates for site mod. As well as the process on how selection will go down. Normally this would be the end of the announcement, more or less, but I wanted this to be different. This will be the second time we've asked for general interest from the Guild community. No one has to nominate you, no moderator has to know who you are. 

Last time I asked a few questions of each candidate, I looked at alts, and post histories. I even bugged Mahz about it, and yes, he got back to me about it very quickly. Still it was a slow process and it took longer than I would have liked, and those who applied last time told me that the process was frustrating because they had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. 

This time I want that to change that. 

We have 16 candidates. That's the most I've ever heard of for a mod position. Site staff has decided it would be best if we kept that list private. I do not mind if you let it be known that you're on the list if you want, but please understand this is not a popularity contest. If you don't want it known you're on that list...more than fair. Personally I probably wouldn't want people knowing if I was on it. I'm shy, though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(If you want to make sure we put you on there and you sent us a DM/PM before the cut off, please reach out to me or any other site staffer. We're happy to triple check.)

The site mods will assist me in reaching out to each candidate and trying to pick their brain a little bit. To that end we've been thinking up some questions to ask these candidates. What a great way to take advantage of making this process more transparent? 

Soooo...if you have a question you think would be good to ask a site mod candidate let us have it. Reply here (if this seems 'locked' someone tell me--there's a bug that bit one of my earlier threads and there's an easy fix but it helps to know), or send a site staffer (admin or site mod) the question in PM/DM. Either way. We may not catch it in the status bar, so at your own risk status bar peeps. (Don't use this ask for assistance as a chance to shitpost/troll us or the candidates please.)

You got until Friday night in the US.

After we get the list of questions finalized site mods and I will begin to survey and evaluate the candidates. (This will likely take the longest amount of time out of the whole process.)

Once that is finalized each site mod and admin will get their chance to give their opinions on each candidate and/or push for a few they liked best for the role. After that we'll vote until a majority is reached. Then we will let that person and announce it. 

That is the plan, and the process created for it. I will update this thread on when we're on the next phase of the process.